To move the motion, the 19-member TMC would need the support of 54 MPs.

Even
if TMC chief Mamata Banerjee succeeds in getting the backing of
14-member BJD, 9-member AIADMK and 5-member TDP, she would still need
another seven MPs to give notice for the motion.

That means without the backing of the BJP or the Left block it will be a tall order for the TMC to even move it.

The BJP parliamentary party will meet on Tuesday to take a call on whether to support a no-confidence motion.

Party sources said they were not really keen on it because the move could be counterproductive.

BJP
spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said the parliamentary party will meet
at L. K. Advani's residence and think over its strategy for the Winter
Session starting November 22.

The CPM, however, has said it may not back the motion.

Unfazed
by Mamata's plans, Congress on Monday said the government will prove
majority in Lok Sabha even if a no-confidence motion is brought or any
other resolution on FDI in retail issue taken up under a rule entailing
voting.

"We are fully confident of numbers and will prove
majority on the floor of Lok Sabha when ever any such motion comes. We
have more than 272," party spokesperson Sandip Dikshit said.

At
the same time, he insisted government has no plan to seek a confidence
vote on the issue as it had done during the UPA I on the issue of
Indo-US nuclear deal in 2008 when Left parties had withdrawn support
from it.

"The situation is now different from that in 2008 when
doubts had been raised about the majority of the government as some
parties had withdrawn support. This time there is no such situation," he
said.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari took a
dig at Mamata saying that never in the history of Parliament a party
with 19 members has pushed for such an action.

"This is a
peculiar situation that in the history of Parliament a 19-member party
is talking of a no-confidence motion," Tewari told reporters.

The
minister rued that Banerjee is reaching out for support on her party's
motion to even those opposition parties "which she has fought for the
last 30 years."

"I hope she will reintrospect and reconsider her
decision seriously because till three months back she was part of this
government and TMC ministers were part of it," he at the same time said.